Hints and tips:
...In the communications sector, the video entertainment companies (Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount, Disney, Netflix et al) explain the bulk of the outperformance....
...Friday Islamic New Year (Al-Hijra) 1444 begins UK, members of the Communication Workers Union employed by BT and Openreach are set to strike for 24 hours in a row over pay....
...Trump et al v....
...“If I think of the amount of pressure I’m under as a deposit taker and the care and attention I have to take when providing unsecured lending to younger people, it is staggering me that Klarna et al are...
...Et cetera, ad nauseam. The numbers seem to back up the thesis....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...But the company is still struggling to become profitable, with net losses widening in the third quarter. Mercedes Ruehl in Singapore 3....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...al, with just $9bn on legacy oil and gas....
...When sages speak Here is a thumping research report from Jonathan Woetzel, Jeongmin Seong et al from the McKinsey Global Institute....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...al), which improves SONG’s negotiating position. . . . . uh, great?...
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...The company, which receives four-fifths of its revenue from video games, used the momentum to pursue a $2.7bn secondary listing on the Hong Kong Exchange in June. Mercedes Ruehl in Singapore 40....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...(WaPo) Girls v Boys The US Girl Scouts are suing the Boy Scouts after it dropped “Boy” from its programme name....
...Deutsche bankers beware: if German public opinion hardens further from its already hostile view of banks and bankers, Mr Sewing, Mr Ritchie et al could well find themselves the butt of calls for a “Deutschmerz...
...(WSJ) Uber safety drive The San Francisco-based company will contact passengers and drivers if smartphone sensors detect a possible crash or a prolonged stop during a ride, as part of an expanded set of...
...Adult brains grew almost threefold between 3m years ago and 200,000 years ago....
...Now the company has postponed those increases following an extensive discussion with Donald Trump, who had said the company should be “ashamed” of the move to push up prices....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...(Recode) Trump v Hawaii The US Supreme Court will consider the legality of President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban....
...(FT, Al Jazeera) Netflix plans $1bn European investment Netflix is going big in Europe....
...Iran and Russia back the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey has called for him to be ousted and has supported Syrian rebels....
...“Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not. In Wisconsin, considerable effort was expended to woo Foxconn — a Taiwan-based company which makes, among other things, roughly half of the world’s iPhones....
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